The entire arc of a fellow student in Baker’s philosophy seminar, whom he dubs Julian, is engineered as setup and payoff. He’s “a bit of a menace” in class, Baker writes, given to boasting: “Not to flex,” Julian says, “but I have been the biggest value add to this class.” He relentlessly defends the billionaire class, viewing them as the real “downtrodden” in American life. And Baker walks him, page by page, toward a single zinger: “Julian, the billionaire-wannabe who considered a wealth tax ‘the single most dangerous proposal in politics,’ looked me square in the eyes and said, ‘In many ways, I’m a Buddhist.’”
Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto | Washington Monthly
The only thing that worried me were the holy leakers. There's nothing more hopeless or depraved than a man in the depths of a religious binge.
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